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title: Unable to ignore or excide what filled so much of the imagination of… — Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. · tree and pragmatics
description: Unable to ignore or excide what filled so much of the imagination of the country, and unable, as Christians, to believe in the divinity of the Tuatha De Danan and their predecessors, they rationalised all the pre-Milesian record. Who acts: Christians. A sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.
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# Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3, sentence 45

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Unable to ignore or excide what filled so much of the imagination of the country, and unable, as Christians, to believe in the divinity of the Tuatha De Danan and their predecessors, they rationalised all the pre-Milesian record.

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**Who acts:** Christians · **What happens:** ignore, excide, fill, believe, rationalis, imagine · **To what, where:** much, divinity, pre-Milesian record, country

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This is a sentence of «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Early Bardic Literature, Ireland., part 3. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Christians), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg8109:3:45
# text = Unable to ignore or excide what filled so much of the imagination of the country, and unable, as Christians, to believe in the divinity of the Tuatha De Danan and their predecessors, they rationalised all the pre-Milesian record.
1	Unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	ignore	ignore	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	excide	excide	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
6	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	nsubj	_	_
7	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	imagination	imagination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	unable	unable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	parataxis	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	divinity	divinity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
30	Tuatha	Tuatha	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
31	De	De	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	flat	_	_
32	Danan	Danan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	predecessors	predecessor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	38	nsubj	_	_
38	rationalised	rationalis	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
39	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	42	det:predet	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	pre-Milesian	pre-milesian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ignore** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **excide** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **fill** | past |  | much of the imagination of the country |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent much=Patient |
| 4 | **believe** | to-infinitive | Christians |  |  | the divinity of the Tuatha Danan and Christians's predecessors |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **rationalis** | past | Christians *= christian* | all pre-Milesian record |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **imagine** |  |  | the country |  |  |  |  | nom imagination «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.» by Standish O'Grady, Project Gutenberg book 8109 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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